Needham Market railway station

Needham Market
Needham Market railway station in 2007
Location
Place	Needham Market
Local authority	Mid Suffolk
Grid reference	TM091548
Operations
Station code	NMT
Managed by	Abellio Greater Anglia
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	16,237
2005/06	25,472
2006/07	37,074
2007/08	43,987
2008/09	53,874
2009/10	58,054
2010/11	67,056
2011/12	77,550
2012/13	85,078
2013/14	91,358
2014/15	92,418
History
1846	Opened as Needham
1967	Closed
1971	Reopened as Needham Market
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Needham Market from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Needham Market railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) in the East of England, serving the town of Needham Market, Suffolk. It is 77 miles 7 chains (124.1 km) down-line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Ipswich to the south and Stowmarket to the north. Its three-letter station code is NMT.

The station is currently operated by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also runs all trains serving the station. It sees regular services between Ipswich and Stowmarket, whereafter trains branch off to Cambridge via the Ipswich to Ely Line.

History

The station was originally opened with the name Needham by the Ipswich & Bury Railway in 1846. The main building, described as "one of the best in East Anglia" by Biddle, was designed in a grand Jacobean style with decorative brickwork by Frederick Barnes and was completed by the contractor, Daniel Revitt, in 1849. It was later slightly simplified, and the platforms rebuilt, by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).

It was closed to passengers by the Eastern Region of British Railways in 1967 but reopened as Needham Market in 1971. The main building, now in alternative use, is a Grade II listed building.^[1] It was restored in 2000 by Spacia Ltd, and won an award in the 2002 National Railway Heritage Awards. In April 2015 work commenced to improve the station, but this did not include making the London-bound platform wheelchair accessible.^[2][3][4]

Services

The following services typically call at Needham Market:

Operator	Route	Rolling stock	Frequency
Abellio Greater Anglia	Cambridge - Dullingham - Newmarket - Kennett - Bury St. Edmunds - Thurston - Elmswell - Stowmarket - Needham Market - Ipswich	Class 170	1x per hour

References

1. Historic England. "Details from image database (436973)". Images of England.
2. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/nmt/details.html
3. Biddle, Gordon (2003). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866247-5.
4. Sore, Ray (January 1999). "The railway at Needham (Market)". Great Eastern Journal (97): 3–13.

External links

• Train times and station information for Needham Market railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 52°09′09″N 1°03′19″E / 52.1526°N 1.0554°E